Job 4:17

The voice asks whether mortal man can be more righteous or pure than God his Maker. The clear answer is no, affirming that no human can claim innocence before the Creator.

Cross-references · 21

• Job 9:2I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
• Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
• Eccl 7:20For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
• Ps 143:2And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
• Rom 11:33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
• Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
• Rom 2:5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
• Rom 3:4–7God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
• Jer 12:1Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
• Job 35:10But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
• Job 35:2Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
• Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Ps 145:17The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
• Job 40:8Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
• Rev 4:8And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
• Mark 7:20–23And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
• Rom 9:20Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
• Job 9:30–31If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
• Gen 18:25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
• Job 8:3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

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